Chinese Labor Activist Sentenced To 10 Years

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December 28, 1998

BEIJING - Broadening a crackdown on dissent, China tried and sentenced a labor activist Sunday to 10 years in prison for telling a U.S. government-funded radio network about farmers' protests, his wife said. Zhang Shanguang was the fourth dissident given a lengthy jail term in a week. He was sentenced after a brief closed-door hearing at a court in Huaihua City in southern China's Hunan province, his wife, Hou Xuezhu, said.